What Is Underspecified Segment?

David Perry: I was just throwing out an example of something that's not necessarily as obviously wrong, but once you think about it, it's kind of weird. This basically is exactly what I did with a language of mine called julier, which if you're one of the old guard con-langers, you'll probably know it if you don't. But so what happened was when he was an undergraduate at Berkeley, we did in our phonology class, this was the first time that I had ever encountered Turkish. And they gave us a whole big example where we were basically trying to describe the Val harmony of Turkish. The oblative of the word for house is ev